petis

petis is a Latin form of peto, meaning “seek, ask for; make for, head for; attack, aim at; stand for (office)”. It is the 2nd person singular present active indicative.

Found 136 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.148: … non perspiciat. postulant enim, non uti ne cogantur statuere; quid igitur? ut ipsis ne liceat. quid est hoc? petis a me, quod in tua potestate est, ut id tibi facere ne liceat; pete potius ne quis te invitum polliceri aut fa …

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 2.17.6: uni epistulae respondi; venio ad alteram. Petis a me, ut Bibulo te quam diligentissime commendem. in quo mihi voluntas non dest, sed locus esse videtur tecum …

Jerome, Epistolae 52.1: PETIS, Nepotiane carissime,litteris transmarinis et crebro petis, ut tibi brevi volumine digeram praecepta vivendi …

All forms of peto (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.